Editorial Team
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Anne-Marie Laslett, Ph.D., Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Dr Anne-Marie Laslett is a Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University. She conducts research on alcohol’s harms to others, particularly the effects of men’s drinking on women and children. She also directs the Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s Harm to Others project at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University. For twenty years she has undertaken alcohol and other drug research, focusing latterly on alcohol’s harms to children and families. She originally graduated as a dentist, and then undertook Masters Degrees in Oral Epidemiology and Public Health and a PhD in population and global health.
Neo Morojele, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Neo Morojele is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She also serves as a Consultant to the South African Medical Research Council and the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town. She is also the President of ISAJE (International Society of Addiction Journal Editors). Her research focuses on alcohol and HIV, the treatment gap for people with substance use disorders in South Africa, and alcohol policy.
Senior Editor for International Support
Kathryn Graham, Ph.D., Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
Senior Editors
Surasak Chaiyasong, Ph.D.,Mahasarakham University Faculty of Pharmacy, Thailand. Surasak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy at Mahasarakham University (MSU). He has experience in alcohol policy research and development at local, national and regional levels. His work has been funded by the Center for Alcohol Studies and Thai Health Promotion Foundation, including the International Alcohol Control Policy (IAC) study and the WHO-ThaiHealth project to support for alcohol policy development in LMICs.
Christina Chambers, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, United States. Dr Christina Chambers is employed full-time by the University of California San Diego where she is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics with joint appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She directs the California Pregnancy Risk Information Line, and directs a North American research center located at the University of California focused on the safety of medications and vaccines in pregnancy. Her work and travel are funded by NIAAA, NIGMS, AHRQ, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the State of California, and several pharmaceutical companies.
Jason Ferris, Ph.D. is a Professor, alcohol and drug epidemiologist, and biostatistician with 20 years of experience in public health research. He heads the Global Substance Use and Mental Health Unit and serves as Director of the Research and Statistical Support Service (RASSS) in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland. His research, positioned at the intersection of substance use and mental health, focuses on enhancing public awareness of the harmful impacts of substances on mental and physical health. As Chief Investigator on 50+ funded projects, securing more than $65M, he also leads biostatistics for the Global Drug Survey since 2013. His commitment to research excellence earned him UQ’s Innovators Excellence Award 2023, UQ's Faculty of Medicine Innovator of the Year Award 2022. In 2024 he was recognised by his peers receiving the Australian Alcohol and other Drugs Winter School Award for outstanding contribution to the AOD research field. Recognised as a UQ Academic Leader of the Future in 2021, his contributions have also been acknowledged with the 2019 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher award and a 2021 Service Excellence Award, underscoring his dedication to advancing substance use research and data governance.
Heng (Jason) Jiang, Ph.D., Department of Public Health and the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR), School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia. Dr Jiang is a is a Health Economist and Associate Professor at Department of Public Health and the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University. He conducts quantitative and economic analyses related to health risk factors or behaviours, health policy and interventions. Dr. Jiang has a particular research interest in estimating the impacts of policy or program interventions on alcohol, tobacco and drug use, as well as gambling problem, and the related social and health issues. He also examines the associations between health risk factors and non-communicable diseases and injuries.
Sandra Kuntsche, Ph.D., the Bouverie Centre, School of Psychology & Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia. Dr Sandra Kuntsche is an Associate Professor Family Therapy and Systemic Research at the Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University in Melbourne. Sandra has more than 25 years of experience in alcohol research and is one of the leading researchers worldwide on the impact of social roles on alcohol use. She has repeatedly evaluated health promotion and prevention programs in the past. A central topic of her recent work is the impact parents have on the alcohol cognitions of their children as well as what role alcohol plays in the work-life balance of parents. She graduated in Psychology and obtained her PhD from the University of Maastricht in Health Sciences.
Florian Labhart, Ph.D., Addiction Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland. Florian Labhart is a senior project leader at the research department of Addiction Switzerland, in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus mainly on the social epidemiology of alcohol and other substance use. They include the identification of social and contextual determinants of risky substance use and of drinking during pregnancy, the monitoring of opioid agonist treatments, as well as the living conditions of populations suffering from addiction.
Dr Rachel O'Donnell, Institute for Social Marketing and Health, University of Stirling, Scotland. Dr Rachel O’Donnell is a Research Fellow with over 15 years’ experience of conducting qualitative research. Her current areas of research interest including alcohol licensing, alcohol availability, no- and low-alcohol products and the evaluation of alcohol policies. Rachel also has longstanding experience of working in tobacco control, developing and evaluating health behaviour change interventions to reduce parental smoking in the home. She also has expertise in working with seldom heard groups (including prison populations and traveller groups) and incorporating patient and public involvement into the design and conduct of alcohol and tobacco-related research.
Sebastián Peña, M.D., Ph.D., Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland. Dr Peña is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Senior Member of the Chilean Millennium Nucleus for the Evaluation and Analysis of Drug Policies and Adjunct Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He is a Chilean medical doctor and epidemiologist, interested in alcohol and tobacco epidemiology, NCDs, health equity, and the characterization and evaluation of health policies. Dr Peña received the 2021 Väinö Kannisto Award by the Family Federation of Finland and was awarded Young Epidemiologist of the Year 2021 by the Finnish Epidemiology Society for his doctoral research.
Ilana Pinsky, Ph.D., Mental Health and Substance Use, Fiocruz. Dr. Ilana Pinsky is a researcher at Fiocruz, Brazil and a visiting scholar at the Center of Alcohol and Drug Studies at Rutgers University. She was a consultant at the Mental Health and Substance Use, Pan American Health Organization and at the Less Alcohol Unit, World Health Organization. Ilana is a clinical psychologist, originally from Brazil, where she held positions at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her research interests focus especially on alcohol policies, including alcohol marketing and commercial determinants of health.
Dr Girish N Rao, Professor of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health, NIMHANS, Bangalore is a medical graduate with a postgraduate degree in Community Medicine and is trained in epidemiological methods. He has been associated with nearly 67 research projects at NIMHANS inthe past decade. The key areas of research have been geriatric mental health, maternal mental health, alcohol epidemiology, health economics and community mental health. The focus has been on health systems with a public health perspective leading on to operational and translational research. Dr Rao handles the Public Health Management and Administration and Mental Neurological and Substance Use Disorders Module for the Masters in Public Health Course at NIMHANS. He was the co-investigator for the India component of the World Mental Health Survey – Bangalore study, the Burden of Headache disorders in India study, and the harms to Others from Alcohol use (India Country study – Phase 1 and 2), Socioeconomic impact of alcohol, Patterns and Consequences of Alcohol Misuse in India, Bangalore Injury / Road traffic Injury Surveillance programme. He is currently the Co-Principal Investigator for three large scale research endeavours of eminence in the country, the National Mental Health Survey, the second largest survey globally on mental health and two longitudinal cohort studies on Dementia.
Monica Swahn, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Health Promotion and Physical Education in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services at Kennesaw State University in the USA. She is trained as a psychiatric/alcohol epidemiologist and her main research interests pertain to health risk behaviors and disparities, focusing on the structural drivers and social determinants of alcohol use, violence and HIV/AIDS. She is committed to strengthening research and capacity building for alcohol prevention and mental health care in low-resource settings.
Ilona Tamutienė, Ph.D., University of Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Dr Ilona Tamutienė is a Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, and Senior Researcher at the Vytautas Kavolis Transdiciplinary Social and Humanities Research Institute at the Vytautas Magnus University. She is conducting research on alcohol’s harms to others, alcohol policy, and institutional response to a problem of harm, especially to children.
Samantha Wells, Ph.D., Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Canada. Dr Samantha Wells is a Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also a Professor with the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University. In addition, Dr Wells is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Deakin University in Australia.
Ingrid Wilson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology in the Health and Social Sciences Cluster, and Adjunct Research Fellow with La Trobe University. She has a PhD in Mother and Child Health from La Trobe University, a first-class Honours degree in Criminology (University of Melbourne), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Law (UK). Her research focuses on alcohol-related intimate partner violence and the gendered nature of drinking and harm. A qualitative researcher, she is passionate to ensure the voices and experiences of disadvantaged populations are illuminated in health research and social policy. Ingrid has a background in alcohol policy development as an advisor for the Victorian State Government, public health advocacy in the not-for-profit sector, and leadership experience as Board Chair of a women’s charity in Melbourne.
Dr. Jinhui Zhao received his medical degree from Harbin Medical University, China, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Demography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, a MSc degree in Epidemiology and Diploma in Addiction Studies from the University of Toronto and his PhD in Community Health and Epidemiology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is currently working as scientist at the University of Victoria Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include epidemiology and statistics of substance use (alcohol, cigarette, illicit drugs and gambling).
Manuscript Manager
Christine Buchanan, South Africa. Christine has a Master's degree in Research Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and is a registered Neuropsychologist. Her interest is in chronic diseases and helping people who are living with a chronic condition. She is a member of the British Psychological Society, Division of Neuropsychology, and an associate member of the South African Clinical Neuropsychological Association. Christine has had many years experience in editing neuropsychological assessment reports, as well as academic dissertations and theses, and has a qualification in editing from the University of Cape Town. She is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Treasurer
Elin K. Bye, Ph D., Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway. Dr Elin K. Bye is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo. She has 20 years of experience in alcohol research, and past research, and current interests include studies of trends in alcohol, tobacco and drug use among adolescents in the general population, and associations between substance use and various consequences both at the aggregate and individual level. Dr Bye is currently also involved in several comparative projects: “The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ESPAD)”, “Twenty years later: Explanations and consequences of the decline in adolescents’ drinking in the Nordic countries (NOS-HS)” and “Nordic Adolescents and the New Nicotine Market (NADNIC)”.
Editorial Advisory Board
Jürgen Rehm, Ph.D., Advisory Board Chair, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada. Dr Jürgen Rehm is Senior Scientist in the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research and in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. He is Professor and was the Inaugural Chair of Addiction Policy in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and he also holds professorships and positions in Germany and Spain.
Thomas F. Babor, Ph.D., MPH, Professor, Physicians Health Services Chair in Community Medicine & Public Health, University of Connecticut Health Centre, United States. Professor Babor is a Professor Emeritus and former Chairman in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA. His academic training is in social psychology, addiction science and psychiatric epidemiology. His research interests include screening, diagnosis, early intervention, and treatment evaluation, as well as alcohol and drug policy. He has worked with the World Health Organization on the development of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and the Alcohol, Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and the co-author of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2022) and Drug Policy and the Public Good. (2018). He is currently the Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Addiction Science, which provides advanced training to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in alcohol and drug research.
Charles Parry, Ph.D., South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), South Africa. Professor Charles Parry is a chief specialist scientist in the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use & Tobacco Research Unit at the SAMRC. He is a Clinical and Research Psychologist and an extraordinary professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University. He was trained in South Africa and the USA in clinical and community psychology and mathematical statistics. His current research centres on alcohol and drug epidemiology and policy; alcohol use and TB treatment; measurement of alcohol-related trauma; and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Since 2006 he has been a member of the WHO Expert Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Alcohol & Drug Epidemiology (since 2015).
Kerstin Stenius, Ph.D., National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health, Finland and Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD) Sweden
Nazarius Tumwesigye, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda. He serves as a country representative for the African Union's Drug epidemiology network program and heads the alcohol, drugs and addictions research unit (ADARC). His research areas are varied but they include alcohol epidemiology, alcohol interventional trials and impact of alcohol abuse on HIV prevalence, Road traffic injury, Intimate partner violence and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).
Robin Room, Ph.D., Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR), LaTrobe University, Australia. Professor Room is a sociologist who has directed research centres in the USA, Canada, Sweden and Australia, studying social and cultural aspects of alcohol, other drugs and gambling behaviour, harms from these to the user and to others, and policies and other social responses. He is currently a Professor at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and a Professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Sarah Callinan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research (CAPR), LaTrobe University, Australia. Dr Sarah Callinan is quantitative researcher at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University, Australia. She was an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow who currently focusses on survey research on alcohol, screening tools and drinking in the home.
Guilherme Borges, Ph.D., Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria, Mexico City, Mexico. Guilherme Borges is a Psychologist and Epidemiologist, Emeritus researcher in Medical Sciences at the Ramón de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry and an Emeritus Researcher at the National System of Researchers in Mexico. Dr. Borges served as a member of the substance use disorders chapter for the DSM-5 and in the DSM-5-TR Cross-Cutting Culture Review Group of the American Psychiatric Association, participated in the ICD-11 Working Group on Cultural Considerations (WHO), he is a member of the Expert Group on Alcohol, Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) and member of the Reference Group on the Epidemiology of Alcohol and Drugs of the World Health Organization (WHO). His areas of expertise are alcohol and drugs and how they relate to injury and suicide. Dr. Borges is also involved in research on psychiatric nosology, mental health, and immigration.
Sawitri Assanangkornchai, Ph.D., Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Sawitri Assanangkornchai is a Professor of Psychiatry working in the Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. She is also the Director of Centre for Alcohol Studies, a national granting agency under the support of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, with a mission to promote research and policy development on alcohol control. Dr. Assanangkornchai’s research interests include epidemiological and clinical studies on alcohol- and substance-related problems, behavioural addiction and mental health problems. Dr. Assanangkornchai is currently the President of the Asia Pacific Society for Alcohol and Addiction Research (APSAAR). She was a member of the Workgroup on the Classification of Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders for the ICD-11 Mental and Behavioural Disorders and the Technical Expert Group on Alcohol and Drug Epidemiology of the WHO.
